Hair Growing Back 2 Days After Laser Hair Removal - Normal?

Some doctors advocate for the discontinuation of Retinols one week before the laser hair removal so that the skin is less irrritated.  Some Retinols are more irritating than others, and prescription tretinoin (Retin-A and others) are even more irritating.

It does not appear that you had a typical laser used for your hair removal as the spot size is very small and round. I am not able to determine what wavelength the laser emits but your pigment in the epidermis did absorb the laser energy preferentially over the hair shaft pigment in the dermis...

The 1064nm. laser is the least apt to cause hypopigmentation but no treatment is immune from risk.  You may have normalization occur spontaneously but it may take a long time. Some patients may try to intentionally tan their legs but it may accentuate the difference between the darker...

There are multiple variables that need to be considered to determine if pigmentation will return after treatment with laser hair removal.. If a patient has dark skin color, the wavelength of the laser needs to be considered. Longer wavenlengths penetrate deeper and spare the epidermal melanin...

Usually with laser hair removal, you should feel some degree of a sensation similar to a rubber band snap. You will feel less pain with finer, lighter hairs and more pain with dark, coarse hairs. Also, if there is a chiller blowing cold air or if you have applied numbing cream or an ice pack,...

Hi Siouxella.  The correct answer to the question is that it depends.  The hair growth cycle is different lengths for different areas of the body.  In some cases, the hair growth cycle can be as short as four weeks and in other cases it can be longer than 12 weeks.  Because we often treat mul...